Posts by Simon Grigg
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large scale derivative exchanges didn't exist in NZ
Not true.. large scale derivatives trading did happen in in NZ in the 1980s, via the New Zealand Futures and Options Exchange which operated in the country from 1984-2003.
And via offshore trading.
And many's the old Eastern 'burbs family who were very badly scorched in the crash and burn of many of the brokerages, some quite scandalous at the time, at the end of the 80s.
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Live from Channel One, in the 1970s, The mighty Mighty Diamonds:
and two from Johnny Clarke from the same decade @ King Jammy's & Bunny Lee's
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Our weekend in this part of the world is rather dominated by the mayhem, largely peaceful so far, of Thai democratic murmurings:
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That Paul Weller remix is available as a legitimate free download.
You mean I didn't have to duff around stripping the audio offa that..damn
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In related news, Paul Weller just received the NME gong for being a 'Godlike Genius'.
For a mouldy old bastard, this 12" mix of his new single is well fab in a plastic Motown way.
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While there is a risk it might devalue the original experiences from your past I would never turn down a chance to hear that list...ever.
Yep, agreed, but then, despite the names, JD / NO never really split
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Just realised while clearing up a pile of books that it's Charlie Gillett who wrote The Sound of the City, the very in-depth book about American music, 1945-'71.
Try and track down his Making Tracks, the history of Atlantic, if you've not read it..perhaps the best rekkid label book ever, since nobody has yet had the balls to do a proper nuts and bolts Motown one.
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The Jerry Dammers-less Specials were fantastic. Well, anybody I've spoken to thought so, and I would have to agree.
Not saying they weren't but it kinda stood against everything they originally stood for, but then what they stood for was, I guess, largely defined by Dammers, and that second and third album was mostly all him (as were overwhelming slabs of the first).
It's like when I went to the Pistols...fucking great but it was a covers band who just happened to be made up of guys who were in the original band, going through the same motions every night. At least they were honest about their mercenary motives though.
I find myself in this odd place where I can't be bothered with nostalgia one day and loving it the next, but mostly the first. Like I said, I mostly enjoy nostalgia for the friends it drags in.
Pixies...I likely wouldn't have gone anyway as I didn't get them the first time around. They existed in a timeframe when I was more immersed in that electronic stuff coming out of Detroit and Chicago; the quaintly named Golden Age of Hip Hip; and the stuff coming out of NZ & Europe that seemed to fit with those two genres. I bought and listened to few non-NZ rawk records in the late 1980s / early 1990s.
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I like the shape of this argument from Mark Fisher
Mostly the way I feel about reunions. I was thrilled when The Clash didn't bother, and The Jam won't I'm sure. I had trouble with the Jerry Dammers-less Specials and the PIL footage is horrendous.
The AK79 2008 thing, given that I was heavily involved the first time around, was something that I was not that upset to mostly miss, aside from the friend aspect.
That said I did do The Buzzcocks (here in Bangkok) and loved it on the night, but their greatest hits trip has made me love those three original albums, even if I know they're still the pop masterpieces they always were, just a little less. It's stripped away the artistic veneer a tiny bit. Especially when someone like Peter Shelley got really interesting after the band broke and and then really seemed to give up. Lydon too.
I, absolutely illogically, kinda feel deep inside that those bands owe me something, after all I, and a generation, bought into the mythology, and the fact that so many of them burnt so brightly and then burnt out, was intrinsic to the myth.
Then, of course, they don't owe me a bloody thing. However I'd rather leave most of them tucked away in that mental space I created for them (or they created all those years back), so, nah, mostly I won't do reunions.
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BBC DJ Charlie Gillett too...
man, that's distressing, The Sound of the City was a life changer for me, a massive eye opener. Before I found that book as an early teen I simply had no idea about that exactly where that noise I was devouring came from. They didn't tell you that stuff in school.
You can almost forgive him for discovering fucking Dire Straits..almost, but not quite...